
A trooper hit his wife. The Maine State Police sent him to rehab.
“No one was listening,” Amy Burns said. “If I had died in this whole situation, no one would have known.”
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She lost her father as a teen. Now, she’s written a book with the man wrongly convicted of killing him.
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The outsized power of a daily poem
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Developing a skincare routine is important, no matter how old you are — and it is never too late to start.

What I learned about my body after my mind hijacked it for a year
“I am getting older. I am going to die someday. And I am okay with that. But first, I’d like to live without judging myself too old or imperfect to enjoy life as I am,” Emily Morrison writes.